Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Kyiv Post" channel.

  1. ​ @RobinPD so, give one example of nato forces entering russia, and i will bow to your greater wisdom.
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  2. Biden's a dove, just the kind of president Putin likes.
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  3. ​ @mikethespike7579 the regime would not survive a defeat, so like hitler it will keep going way beyond the moment when it is obvious that its goalx are unattainable.
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  4. ​ @derrickbrann2373 1) Iraq was not a nato mission, except 1991, when there was a UN mandate,which included russia and china. 2) Iraq is not in Russia.
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  5. ​ @squireson he doesn't get the Russian mentality. He thinks he's dealing with politicians, as Chamberlain did.
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  6. Why use an insulting word to describe him then, he's an American. Hodges is a southerner, "yanks" come from the north. Try calling him a hick instead.
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  7. ​ @bardsamok9221 when did the Republican party become a far right sect. I grew up thinking of it as the equivalent of the British Conservative Party, supported by better earning Americans, committed to democracy as a concept, and conscious of its specisl role in world affairs.
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  8. I think you will find that the ukranisn security forces effectively ended the insurrection, but the russian army then entered ukraine, leading to the Minsk agreements. You will also find that there was low popular support for becoming part of Russia, in fact 3.4% of the population of Eastern ukraine favored this option. But dont let facts stop you. Just visit kharkiv or something.
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  9. Why negotiate? Your government doesn't abide by international treaties. This game will have to be played to the end.
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  10. ​ @hypnophonz and russias whole economy is the size of texas.
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  11. It did for the USSR, and they only spent 25% of their national budget on the military.
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  12. We have. Other countries haven't.
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  13. ​ @santopino756 it's much higher in Russia, which has the highest wealth inequality in Europe. And then there's being murdered, tortured and imprisoned for your beliefs.
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  14. ​ @alexman8800 he may make red lines, but they in breach of international law, which as a permanant member of the un security council, russia is bound to uphold. Changing borders through force is a serious breach of that international law. applying to join international organisations isn't. Russia could have chosen to join NATO, but this does not conform with Russia's impetial agenda.
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  15. ​ @2fatbunnys he's a direct threat to European security. He has already broken the peace in Europe. Changing European borders by force is a big no-no, and he will be stopped, because the forces arraigned against him are far stronger, but democracies take their time in these matters.
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  16. If you would respect the right of Ukranians to their own independent country, this war would never have happened. Your colonial attitude is the reason for this war. Finally learn to take responsibility for your actions and the underdeveloped condition of your country. Instead of blaming others all the time, easier as it might be for you psychologically, you really need to focus on your internal issues. The answer to your economic backwardness is to be found there.
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  17. ​ @MultiDatura economists don't use that measure. They use nominal or real GDP, because they are genuine comparisons. Russia is 12th.
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  18. ​ @monaliza3334  I know it very well, and it is poor. Most people can't afford to travel abroad, it's badly polluted due to the age of the vehicles, and people don't care about the envitonment so it's dirty. Accomodation is very poor quality, most people live in small apartments without temperature regulstion, water has to be filtered, dieseases sich as typhoid are still prevailent, and that's without people being frightened of expressing their views for fear of being denounced. Pretty grim place.
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  19. And yet you can neither spell "too" nor use it correctly.
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  20. Yep. Bring it on.
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  21. Europe gives more than the US. Fair enough, we're under greater threat, but it's unfair what you claim, and factually incorrect. As for article 5, it was activated once, after 9.11, at your behest.
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  22. ​ @JS-ti8ny me, resident of kharbarovsk, TB rampant, people look shockibgly poor.
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  23. Sometimes generals are right.
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  24. Finland is on their border. Why has Russia moved its defenses away from there. It must feel sooo threatened by NATO.
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  25. ​ @eddastrohmayer251 it isn't senseless to defeat tyrants.
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  26. Having lived and worked in Germany before Brexit spoilt things, I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone there could be anti-western. Does Mutzernich think it's cool to be so?
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  27. It ended with Ostpolitik and Mr Schroeder.
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  28. Most people get it, but many of our leaders are deluding themselves that things can be like they once were.
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  29. The ghost of Mussolini is alive and well in 21. Century Italy.
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  30. What are interest rates and inflation currently? How much has the rouble fallen against the dollar since 2014? (300%). Doesn't look great from here.
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  31. The problem which Russians are most conscious of is the weakness of the rouble.
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  32. Karpov was always the party man.
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  33. ​ @pauldow1648 he voted to annex crimea.
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  34. ​ @jennyomalley7634 you provide a storyline without supporting evidence. It's a bit thin.
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  35. ​ @jennyomalley7634 which media are you referring to precisely? The "west" isn't a country.
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  36. ​ @ignatziusturret5641 you mean those extremists who attacked a peaceful march and got their arses kicked.
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  37. It's never too late to acquire valuable knowledge. Citizens of democracies have a certain duty to do this, in order to keep our democracies healthy.
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  38. ​ @revolution1423 that's BS. The British Empire was still regarded as the world's biggest superpower in 1939.
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  39. ​ @alexman8800  back to reality, who invested billions in the Russian economy, China or the west? Who was Rissia's strategic partner, China or Germany? You may have noticed all those western car plants etc in Russia, and zero Chinese investment. Putin knows NATO isn't a threat, but "strongman" leaders need an enemy to "protect" their people from.
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  40. ​ @Whizzy-jx3qe his biggest mistake was invading Czechia. The west was prepared to accept a greater Germany, but not annexation of non-German speaking territories. If higler had stopped at Austria, he eojkd havd been seen as very successful through a German nationalist lens.
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  41. ​ @WingBroJoseph Hitler followed in a long established tradition of believers in Greater Germany, and those who see Ukraine as an object for colonisation. Craig has written an excellent history of Germany going back to Bismarck and his preference for a "lesser" Germany. This tension was a permanant feature of German foreign policy till 1945, unfortunately the idea of a Greater Russia is still with us. For a clearer understanding of the policy of expansionist powers to Ukraine itself, Tim Snyder has some very interesting points to make. Time to read quality sources rather than speculative conspiracy theories, however titillating they may appear.
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  42. ​ @Whizzy-jx3qe Napoleon's mistake was to drive into Russia. His army was too big and this forced troops in the rear to drink bad water, causing a cholera outbreak, his troops also suffered horribly from a typhus outbreak due to having to enter peasants' homes in their desperate search for food and the hot dry conditions compounded this, lice like such conditions. Taken Together, Napoleon lost 270,,000 troops by the end of summer to these two malaises. He needed to stop at that point because he didn't have enough troops to cover his advancing army's flanks. Consequently, as he retreated from Moscow his supply dumps were overrun ahead of him, at Orsha and Vibetsk for instance, with the expected results. The winter itself was actually much less deadly than the summer, aside from in popular folklore. Napoleon was advised by his marshalls to abandon the campaign at Smolensk, but he gsmbled that he could take Moscow, and this would force Alexander I. to negotiate, which it didn't. 85% of the Grande Armee succumbed to hunger and disease, mostly disease.
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  43. ​ @rosemaryspiota9836  a puppet of China more like.
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  44. ​ @gardenjoy5223 no, we had 7 MBT regiments 1n 1990, now we have 1, and the RAF has less warplanes than the Ukranisns do. Hardly preparing for war with Russis, is it?
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  45. ​ @MultiDatura  yes, and he's right.
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  46. Russia's. Pure resentment for its own failings.
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  47. ​ @maxsun13 many Russians reject democracy and associate it with nazism, perversion, and satanism. I've met them.
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  48. ​ @telebubba5527 appeasement and narrow economic self-interest.
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  49. Nobody believes you. Including yourself.
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  50. ​@rosemaryspiota9836 you chose to have a dysfunctional system, while the west became much more prosperous. Look to yourself and stop playing blame games. Communism was a failure, period.
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